Travesty
# Travesty

A travesty is an absurd or grotesque misrepresentation, a parody, or grossly inferior imitation. In literary or theatrical contexts it may refer to:

* Burlesque, a literary, dramatic, or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects
* Travesti (theatre) (also spelled travesty), the portrayal of a character in a play, opera, or ballet by a performer of the opposite sex
* Victorian burlesque, a genre of theatrical entertainment popular in Victorian England and New York theatre in the mid-19th century
* Travesty generator or parody generator, a computer program that generates nonsensical text (travesty), often based on statistics of an input text
